Harold Varmus

77.6k citations

407 papers · 56.3k indexed · 40 hit papers · h-index 117

Impact in

Virology top 0.1%
Oncology top 0.05%

Papers in

Animal Science and Zoology 93
- Animal Virus Infections Studies 93
Genetics 121
- Virus-based gene therapy research 97

Co-authors: J. Michael Bishop Francis S. Collins Roel Nusse Don Ganem William Pao Maureen F. Zakowski Katerina Politi Mark G. Kris
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (48 papers)Journal of Virology (40 papers)Molecular and Cellular Biology (38 papers)Cell (32 papers)Virology (30 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Canada

In The Last Decade

Harold Varmus

393 papers receiving 52.2k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Toward a Shared Vision for Cancer Genomic Data 2016 · 1.1k citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2016 New England Journal of Medicine
2015 New England Journal of Medicine
2014 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2005 PLoS Medicine
2005 PLoS Medicine
2004 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1992 Cell
1989 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1988 Cell
1988 Nature
1987 Molecular and Cellular Biology
1987 Annual Review of Biochemistry
1987 Molecular and Cellular Biology
1987 Cell
1985 Nature
1984 Nature
1984 Science
1984 Annual Review of Genetics
1984 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1983 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1983 Cell
1983 Nature
1983 Nature
1982 Science
1982 Cell
1982 Nature
1981 Cell
1980 Journal of Virology
1980 Nature
1980 Journal of Biological Chemistry
1979 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1978 Cell
1978 Cell
1978 Cell
1977 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1977 Cell
1977 Cell
1976 Nature
1976 Journal of Molecular Biology
1975 Cell

Peers

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Harold Varmus

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Harold Varmus, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

Border = papers with Harold Varmus Line = papers co-authored together Harold Varmus links everyone, so they are left out of the graph.

All Works

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1	Lineage-specific intolerance to oncogenic drivers restricts histological transformation Science ·Eric E. Gardner, Ethan M. Earlie, Suat Serhan ALTINTEPE DOĞAN, Kosuke YAMAZAKI, Melissa J. Hubisz, Benjamin D. Stein, 芳博館道, Lewis C. Cantley, Ashley M. Laughney, Harold Varmus	2024	46
2	LKB1-Dependent Regulation of TPI1 Creates a Divergent Metabolic Liability between Human and Mouse Lung Adenocarcinoma Cancer Discovery ·Benjamin D. Stein, Osarumwense D. Ufuah, Eric E. Gardner, Jae Won Chang, David Wu, Pablo E. Hollstein, Roger J. Liang, Min Yuan, Qiuying Chen, John S. Coukos, Miriam Sindelar, Bryan Ngo, Steven S. Gross, Reuben J. Shaw, 芳博館道, John M. Asara, Raymond E. Moellering, Harold Varmus, Lewis C. Cantley	2023	20
3	Impaired hematopoiesis and leukemia development in mice with a conditional knock-in allele of a mutant splicing factor gene U2af1 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Dennis Liang Fei, Tao Zhen, Benjamin H. Durham, Osarumwense D. Ufuah, Tuo Zhang, Lisa Garrett, Akihide Yoshimi, Omar Abdel‐Wahab, Robert K. Bradley, Paul Liu, Harold Varmus	2018	58
4	Mutational landscape of EGFR- , MYC- , and Kras- driven genetically engineered mouse models of lung adenocarcinoma Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·David G. McFadden, Katerina Politi, Arjun Bhutkar, Gl�ucia C. G. A. Lima, Xiaoling Song, Mono Pirun, Philip M. Santiago, Caroline Kim-Kiselak, James T. Platt, Wu HuoMing, Emily Hodges, Adam P. Rosebrock, Roderick T. Bronson, Nicholas D. Socci, Gregory J. Hannon, Tyler Jacks, Harold Varmus	2016	126
5	Loss of MIG6 Accelerates Initiation and Progression of Mutant Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor–Driven Lung Adenocarcinoma Cancer Discovery ·Tapan K. Maity, Abhilash Venugopalan, Ilona Linnoila, Constance M. Cultraro, Andreas Giannakou, Roxanne Nemati, Xu Zhang, Joshua D. Webster, Daniel A. Ritt, Sarah Vervalcke, Heinz Hoschuetzky, Richard J. Simpson, Romi Biswas, Katerina Politi, Deborah K. Morrison, Harold Varmus, Udayan Guha	2015	51
6	Reduced NF1 Expression Confers Resistance to EGFR Inhibition in Lung Cancer Cancer Discovery ·Elza C. de Bruin, Catherine Cowell, Patricia H. Warne, Ming Jiang, Rebecca E. Saunders, Mary Ann Melnick, Scott Gettinger, Zenta Walther, Anna Wurtz, Guus J.J.E. Heynen, Daniëlle A.M. Heideman, Javier Gómez‐Román, Almudena García‐Castaño, Yixuan Gong, Marc Ladanyi, Harold Varmus, René Bernards, Egbert F. Smit, Katerina Politi, Julian Downward	2014	154
7	Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Bruce Alberts, Marc W. Kirschner, Shirley M. Tilghman, Harold Varmus Hit paper breakdown →	2014	472
8	Sensitivity of human lung adenocarcinoma cell lines to targeted inhibition of BET epigenetic signaling proteins Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·William W. Lockwood, Kreshnik Zejnullahu, James E. Bradner, Harold Varmus	2012	277
9	Seeding and Propagation of Untransformed Mouse Mammary Cells in the Lung Science ·Katrina Podsypanina, Kylie S. Johnson, Martin Jechlinger, Levi J. Beverly, Dolores Hambardzumyan, Harold Varmus	2008	238
10	Requirement for a Nuclear Function of β-Catenin in Wnt Signaling Molecular and Cellular Biology ·Feng Cong, Liang Schweizer, Mario Chamorro, Harold Varmus	2003	63
11	The challenge of making laws on the shifting terrain of science. PubMed ·Harold Varmus	2000	2
12	Science as a Way of Thinking. The journal of college science teaching ·Harold Varmus	1996	2
13	Genes and the Biology of Cancer Nature Medicine ·Harold Varmus, Robert A. Weinberg, (unknown), (unknown)	1995	66
14	[53] Production of p60c-src by baculovirus expression and immunoaffinity purification Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·David O. Morgan, Joshua M. Kaplan, J. Michael Bishop, Harold Varmus	1991	29
15	Site-Directed Mutagenesis of the SH2- and SH3-Coding Domains of c- src Produces Varied Phenotypes, Including Oncogenic Activation of p60 ^c- ^src Molecular and Cellular Biology ·Hisamaru Hirai, Harold Varmus	1990	46
16	The int-1 proto-oncogene. PubMed ·Harold Varmus, Amanda Brown, J Papkoff, Gregory M. Shackleford	1986	3
17	Features of the Chicken c- myc Gene That Influence the Structure of c- myc RNA in Normal Cells and Bursal Lymphomas Molecular and Cellular Biology ·Carol Nottenburg, Harold Varmus	1986	10
18	Readings in tumor virology Harold Varmus, Arnold J. Levine	1983	3
19	5 Replication of Retroviruses Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·Harold Varmus, Ronald Swanstrom	1982	52
20	9 Functions and Origins of Retroviral Transforming Genes Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·J. Michael Bishop, Harold Varmus	1982	43

About Harold Varmus

Harold Varmus is a scholar working on Animal Science and Zoology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Oncology and Virology, having authored 407 papers that have together received 56.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Virus-based gene therapy research (97 papers), Animal Virus Infections Studies (93 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (61 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (47 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (43 papers), Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments (34 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (27 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (26 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Virology (3.1k citations), Oncology (13.2k citations), Molecular Biology (32.5k citations), Genetics (11.8k citations) and Cancer Research (6.2k citations). Harold Varmus has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Frequent co-authors include J. Michael Bishop, Francis S. Collins, Roel Nusse, Don Ganem, William Pao, Maureen F. Zakowski, Katerina Politi, Mark G. Kris, Vincent A. Miller and Manfred Schwab. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Virology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Cell and Virology.

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